#3930: GIT commit e-mail report is not UTF-8 aware

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#3930: GIT commit e-mail report is not UTF-8 aware
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 Reporter:  ppisar  |       Owner:  rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                            
Milestone:          |   Component:  cvs                            
 Keywords:          |  
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 When git commit is performed, git server sends e-mail to package owner and
 to scm-commits at l.f.o. If commiter display names contains non-ASCII
 characters, the Subject: header in sent e-mail is mall-formed.


 Example with "Marcela Mašláňová":
 {{{
 00000000  53 75 62 6a 65 63 74 3a  20 5b 70 65 72 6c 2d 70  |Subject:
 [perl-p|
 00000010  69 70 5d 20 2a 20 57 65  64 20 41 75 67 20 20 34  |ip] * Wed Aug
 4|
 00000020  20 32 30 31 30 20 4d 61  72 63 65 6c 61 20 4d 61  | 2010 Marcela
 Ma|
 00000030  c5 a1 6c c3 a1 c5 6f 76  c3 a1 20 3c 6d 6d 61 73  |..l...ov..
 <mmas|
 00000040  6c 61 6e 6f 40 72 65 64  68 61 74 2e 63 6f 6d 3e
 |lano at redhat.com>|
 00000050  20 31 2e 31 36 2d 33 20  2d 20 72 65 6e 61 6d 65  | 1.16-3 -
 rename|
 00000060  20 70 69 70 20 74 6f 20  70 65 72 6c 2d 70 69 70  | pip to perl-
 pip|
 00000070  20 62 65 63 61 75 73 0a                           | becaus.|
 00000078
 }}}

 Decoded as UTF-8:
 {{{Subject: [perl-pip] * Wed Aug  4 2010 Marcela Mašlá�vá
 <mmaslano at redhat.com> 1.16-3 - rename pip to perl-pip becaus}}}

 As you can see the header value (1) does not declares non-ASCII encoding,
 and (2) is not valid UTF-8 at all (broken "ň" character).

 According RFC defining e-mail, the header value must be US-ASCII. If other
 characters should be transported, special prologue declaring character set
 must be embedded and the string must be encoded into US-ASCII alpahabet
 (e.g. quoted-printable).

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